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Quotes About Howling

Somewhere off in the distance, a wolf was howling. Crows circled the broken tower, waiting for corn.
~ George R.R. Martin
The only thing I had was Laika, the dog, whose homeless soul was howling through the cosmos. And my brother, the Minotaur.
~ Georgi Gospodinov
ja nalazim da je u pasjem zavijanju daleko manje zlo?e i okorelosti srca nego u pevanju ovih ljudi kad su pijani ili prosto poneseni svojim besom.
~ Ivo Andri?
In noaptea aceea, Colt Alb strapunse tacerea cu un urlet prelung. Isi atinti botul spre stelele reci, impartasindu-le durerea lui.
~ Jack London
And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him.
~ Jack London
And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and dark.
~ Jack London
I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
~ Van Morrison
Thus must the bewildered Wanderer stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into the Sibyl-cave of Destiny, and receive no Answer but an Echo. It is all a grim howling of wild beasts, or the shrieks of despairing, hate-filled men... (The Everlasting No)
~ Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus
This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
rare frost that morning, the wind howling
~ Colson Whitehead
for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Her disintegration went down a shaft of phases, every one more racking than the last; for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
A poet is a lone wolf howling soul at impossible questions— Poetry is the answer.
~ Terri Guillemets
These parched beasts had died with their necks stretched in agony in the sand and now upright and blind and lurching askew with scraps of blackened leather hanging from the fretwork of their ribs they leaned with their long mouths howling after the endless tandem suns that passed above them
~ Cormac McCarthy
Elske screamed, too. But when Elske screamed, it was the war cry of the Volkaric that came out of her mouth, a howling like the voice of a wolf. The cry wound around the narrow streets as if they were in the wild and merciless northlands.
~ Cynthia Voigt
It is a very old and widely spread superstition that when a dog howls at night someone not far away is dying or will soon die. Many people are uncomfortable when they hear a dog howling after dark, not because they believe that dogs have any knowledge that death is present or coming, but because their ancestors for many centuries believed that the howling of a dog was ominous
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
The other night, the cats were howling. I turned over and convinced myself to go back to sleep because they weren't my patients.
~ Lee Gutkind
Our driveway seemed darker than usual. I knew it was silly, but I kept looking around as I walked. Then something rustled in the trees overhead. That was enough for me. I took off running and didn't stop until I made it to the bottom of the boat ramp. Conditions at the marina weren't exactly ideal for a romantic conversation. The wind was howling, and the docks groaned as they rose and fell. Even so, it was better than trying to talk with Julie around.
~ P.J. Petersen
There was the cell where Fr. Eulalio, a thriving lunatic of eighty-six who was castigating himself for unchristian pride at having all the vowels in his name, and greatly revered for his continuous weeping, went blind in an ecstasy of such howling proportions that his canonization was assured.
~ William Gaddis
A tortured note of desperate fatalism runs through his poetry, as in remote landscapes he celebrates the savagery, the howling wilderness.
~ Paul Theroux
Now it has been said from ancient times that all women who weep may be divided into three sorts. There are those who lift up their voices and their tears flow and this may be called crying; there are those who utter loud lamentations but whose tears do not flow and this may be called howling; there are those whose tears flow but who utter no sound and this may be called weeping.
~ Pearl S. Buck
caterwauling
~ Darren Shan
both of whom give Avril a howling case of the maternal fantods.
~ David Foster Wallace
I think the wolves all died when the great forests were cut down. That howling you hear is only the Londoners.
~ Hilary Mantel